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Descant
- noun - a decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody
- sing by changing register; sing by yodeling; "The Austrians were yodeling in the mountains"
- sing in descant
- talk at great length about something of one's interest
Descend
- verb - come as if by falling; "Night fell"; "Silence fell"
- come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example; "She was descended from an old Italian noble family"; "he comes from humble origins"
- do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
- Go down
- move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again"
Descent
- noun - a downward slope or bend
- a movement downward
- properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins"
- Slope or incline,
- the act of changing your location in a downward direction
- the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"
- the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
Dewclaw
- - In any animal, esp. of the Herbivora, a rudimentary claw or small hoof not reaching the ground.
Diocese
- noun - the territorial jurisdiction of a bishop
Discant
- noun - a decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody
Discard
- noun - (cards) the act of throwing out a useless card or of failing to follow suit
- anything that is cast aside or discarded
- getting rid something that is regarded as useless or undesirable
- throw or cast away; "Put away your worries"